Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365Boydell & Brewer, 1999 - 151 pages A close study of clothes worn by aristocratic families and their households at the time of the Black Prince - and of Chaucer - showing Europe-wide influences. 1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant spending on costume, foreshadowing the later luxury of Richard II's court. Stella Mary Newton broke new ground with this detailed study, which discusses fourteenth-century costume in detail. She draws on surviving accounts from the Royal courts, the evidence of chronicles and poetry (often from unpublished manuscripts), and representations in painting, sculpture andmanuscript illumination. Her exploration of aspects of chivalry, particularly the choice of mottoes and devices worn at tournaments, and of the exchange of gifts of clothing between reigning monarchs, offers new insights into thesocial history of the times, and she has much to say that is relevant to the study of illuminated manuscripts of the fourteenth century. |
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Contents
What they said about it | 6 |
The Great Wardrobe and the Round Table | 14 |
English and French Royal Clothing in the Early 1340s | 21 |
Court Dress after Crécy | 29 |
Tournaments and Orders of Chivalry | 41 |
Fashions after Poitiers | 53 |
Livery and the Dress of the Poor | 65 |
Actors Minstrels and Fools | 76 |
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Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365 Stella Mary Newton No preview available - 1980 |
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365 Stella Mary Newton No preview available - 1980 |